How did the US brainwash their people?
Can you believe that they portrayed the life of the colonizers ruling slaves very well?
OMG, “most (slaves) were treated with kindness.”😱😱😱😱
Here are some examples.(1/5)
Textbooks written for the 4th, 7th, 11th grades taught a generation of Virginians state’s history.
Title, “How the Negroes Lived Under Slavery,” included these sentences: “A feeling of strong affection existed between masters and slaves in a majority of Virginia homes.” (2/5)
Textbooks written that the masters “knew the best way to control their slaves was to win their confidence and affection.”
“most (slaves) were treated with kindness.”
All students were taught the same narrative.(3/5)
The 4th-grade edition included this “Some of the Negro servants left the plantations bcz they heard Lincoln was going to set them free. But most stayed on the plantations & went on with their work. Some of them risked their lives to protect the white people they loved.”(4/5)
Read here in Chinese language
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